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Today, Frank and Stephen talk through the news (largely from late May - early June) and then discuss what could be built using Free Tiers granted by AWS.  The next two episodes will look at Free Tiers in Azure and then GCP (we're going alphabetically).

In the news:

1. [AWS]  -  https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/06/identify-and-copy-existing-objects-to-use-s3-bucket-keys-reducing-the-costs-of-server-side-encryption-with-aws-key-management-service-sse-kms/
2. [AWS]  -  https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/06/announcing-per-second-billing-for-ec2-windows-server-and-sql-server-instances/
3. [AWS] -  Announcing Amazon Kendra Smaller Units and Price Drop 
4. [AWS] -  https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/05/new-self-paced-courses-for-cloud-procurement-NET-and-amazon-codeguru-available/ 
5. [AWS] -  https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/05/ec2-high-memory-instances-to-12tb-memory-available-additional-regions-with-on-demand-savings-plan-purchase-options/ 
6. [AWS] - edited out due to low FinOps relevance (also Steve didn't really understand it)  https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/05/amazon-emr-now-supports-amazon-ec2-on-demand-capacity-reservations/ 
7. [AWS] -   https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/05/aws-compute-optimizer-enhances-ec2-instance-type-recommendations/ 
8. [GCP] - THIS IS REALLY BIG!  https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/google-cloud-introduces-tau-vms  
9. [Azure] -  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/dcsv2-vms-pricing-reduction/ 
10. [Azure] -  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/five-more-free-services-available-with-an-azure-free-account/ 

In terms of the Free Tiers we look at what's possible in the "Always Free" services and then in the "Free for 12 months", it's a lot easier with one of them, but I'll let you see which!